Right. The disease needs contact with infected fluids to spread, does not aerosolize, and the infected are being brought back in a plane with a specially outfitted isolation unit to a facility specifically designed to handle them (a separate building in the hospital complex).

Even a cursory review of the facts shows that there is no actual threat or danger. If Ebola spread here on it's own it still wouldn't be a threat to the wider public. Our healthcare system is robustly able to handle this kind of threat. Literally every single person throwing a fit about this is an idiot.

Alunan:Prey4reign: All necessary precautions have been taken. Nothing can go wrong! Right?

Right. The disease needs contact with infected fluids to spread, does not aerosolize, and the infected are being brought back in a plane with a specially outfitted isolation unit to a facility specifically designed to handle them (a separate building in the hospital complex).

Even a cursory review of the facts shows that there is no actual threat or danger. If Ebola spread here on it's own it still wouldn't be a threat to the wider public. Our healthcare system is robustly able to handle this kind of threat. Literally every single person throwing a fit about this is an idiot.

I'm betting since these people are already halfway gone they are going to be early test subjects for a treatment the military wants to fast track and the families agreed to it. It's something we couldn't do with non-US citizens.

Lsherm:Alunan: Prey4reign: All necessary precautions have been taken. Nothing can go wrong! Right?

Right. The disease needs contact with infected fluids to spread, does not aerosolize, and the infected are being brought back in a plane with a specially outfitted isolation unit to a facility specifically designed to handle them (a separate building in the hospital complex).

Even a cursory review of the facts shows that there is no actual threat or danger. If Ebola spread here on it's own it still wouldn't be a threat to the wider public. Our healthcare system is robustly able to handle this kind of threat. Literally every single person throwing a fit about this is an idiot.

I'm betting since these people are already halfway gone they are going to be early test subjects for a treatment the military wants to fast track and the families agreed to it. It's something we couldn't do with non-US citizens.

Plausible. Especially since they are being treated with an experimental serum and transfusions from survivors. No doubt there is a lot of data to be gleaned. If that's the case I laud the effort.

Right. The disease needs contact with infected fluids to spread, does not aerosolize, and the infected are being brought back in a plane with a specially outfitted isolation unit to a facility specifically designed to handle them (a separate building in the hospital complex).

Even a cursory review of the facts shows that there is no actual threat or danger. If Ebola spread here on it's own it still wouldn't be a threat to the wider public. Our healthcare system is robustly able to handle this kind of threat. Literally every single person throwing a fit about this is an idiot.

I'm betting since these people are already halfway gone they are going to be early test subjects for a treatment the military wants to fast track and the families agreed to it. It's something we couldn't do with non-US citizens.

Plausible. Especially since they are being treated with an experimental serum and transfusions from survivors. No doubt there is a lot of data to be gleaned. If that's the case I laud the effort.

I hope this is so, because it would hold promise for stopping this outbreak, or at least treating the people who will likely still fall victim.

Lsherm:Alunan: Prey4reign: All necessary precautions have been taken. Nothing can go wrong! Right?

Right. The disease needs contact with infected fluids to spread, does not aerosolize, and the infected are being brought back in a plane with a specially outfitted isolation unit to a facility specifically designed to handle them (a separate building in the hospital complex).

Even a cursory review of the facts shows that there is no actual threat or danger. If Ebola spread here on it's own it still wouldn't be a threat to the wider public. Our healthcare system is robustly able to handle this kind of threat. Literally every single person throwing a fit about this is an idiot.

I'm betting since these people are already halfway gone they are going to be early test subjects for a treatment the military wants to fast track and the families agreed to it. It's something we couldn't do with non-US citizens.

It's much more likely that Michelle Bachmann was right and we're going to use young asylum seekers that come over the border for medical experiments.

Somebody I know, who seems incredibly biased at minimum, seemed fearful about this, until I told her about the CDC being located in Atlanta. Surprisingly, she didn't know the CDC was based there! Shall I tell her about all the bugs they have there?

bluorangefyre:Somebody I know, who seems incredibly biased at minimum, seemed fearful about this, until I told her about the CDC being located in Atlanta. Surprisingly, she didn't know the CDC was based there! Shall I tell her about all the bugs they have there?

They are one of only two places in the entire world that carries small pox. OMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE OF SMALL POX!!!

On top of having hospitals with fully trained staff in terms of droplet precautions and using personal protective equipment, we also lack the political/cultural issues that are driving the epidemic over there. It's not like we don't know how to stop an Ebola outbreak. We absolutely do.

But you need people to cooperate: not touch dead bodies, don't open body bags, don't keep sick people at home instead of taking them to a hospital, and for the love of god, not taking family member's out of the hospital to visit the local healer instead. That area is unfamiliar with Ebola, and many have deep distrust of their governments and healthcare workers.

A lot of the people who die from Ebola actually die from shock not blood loss. Part of what they may be trying to do is find a way to deal with the shock in hopes that will allow more people to survive.

Pixter:On top of having hospitals with fully trained staff in terms of droplet precautions and using personal protective equipment, we also lack the political/cultural issues that are driving the epidemic over there. It's not like we don't know how to stop an Ebola outbreak. We absolutely do.

But you need people to cooperate: not touch dead bodies, don't open body bags, don't keep sick people at home instead of taking them to a hospital, and for the love of god, not taking family member's out of the hospital to visit the local healer instead. That area is unfamiliar with Ebola, and many have deep distrust of their governments and healthcare workers.

iron de havilland:Pixter: On top of having hospitals with fully trained staff in terms of droplet precautions and using personal protective equipment, we also lack the political/cultural issues that are driving the epidemic over there. It's not like we don't know how to stop an Ebola outbreak. We absolutely do.

But you need people to cooperate: not touch dead bodies, don't open body bags, don't keep sick people at home instead of taking them to a hospital, and for the love of god, not taking family member's out of the hospital to visit the local healer instead. That area is unfamiliar with Ebola, and many have deep distrust of their governments and healthcare workers.

Oh come on.

Atlanta can't be that bad, can it?

it can. It's more colorful residents refer to it as Hotlanta. That should tell you all you need to know.

Ambivalence:bluorangefyre: Somebody I know, who seems incredibly biased at minimum, seemed fearful about this, until I told her about the CDC being located in Atlanta. Surprisingly, she didn't know the CDC was based there! Shall I tell her about all the bugs they have there?

They are one of only two places in the entire world that carries small pox. OMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE OF SMALL POX!!!

Or the fact the CDC had some unaccounted small pox virus ampules they didnt even know about it in a storage closet with no security?

If they are in grave condition, they will not survive the flight home, no matter what efforts are taken. That is a long plane ride to Atlanta

Even with our advanced health care and public sanitation...I would still be concerned with Ebola. The fact is we have folks who just emigrated from nations where their people are not all properly potty trained.

Even a cursory review of the facts shows that there is no actual threat or danger. If Ebola spread here on it's own it still wouldn't be a threat to the wider public. Our healthcare system is robustly able to handle this kind of threat.

Alunan:Prey4reign: All necessary precautions have been taken. Nothing can go wrong! Right?

Right. The disease needs contact with infected fluids to spread, does not aerosolize, and the infected are being brought back in a plane with a specially outfitted isolation unit to a facility specifically designed to handle them (a separate building in the hospital complex).

Even a cursory review of the facts shows that there is no actual threat or danger. If Ebola spread here on it's own it still wouldn't be a threat to the wider public. Our healthcare system is robustly able to handle this kind of threat. Literally every single person throwing a fit about this is an idiot.

Haven't you watched the movie?

Someone gets both the flu and ebola and then bam, we have ebola that can aerosolize.

Viruses throw around DNA all over the place and there might be that magical splice of the mixture of flu and ebola.

mr0x:Alunan: Prey4reign: All necessary precautions have been taken. Nothing can go wrong! Right?

Right. The disease needs contact with infected fluids to spread, does not aerosolize, and the infected are being brought back in a plane with a specially outfitted isolation unit to a facility specifically designed to handle them (a separate building in the hospital complex).

Even a cursory review of the facts shows that there is no actual threat or danger. If Ebola spread here on it's own it still wouldn't be a threat to the wider public. Our healthcare system is robustly able to handle this kind of threat. Literally every single person throwing a fit about this is an idiot.

Haven't you watched the movie?

Someone gets both the flu and ebola and then bam, we have ebola that can aerosolize.

Viruses throw around DNA all over the place and there might be that magical splice of the mixture of flu and ebola.

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Alunan:Prey4reign: All necessary precautions have been taken. Nothing can go wrong! Right?

Right. The disease needs contact with infected fluids to spread, does not aerosolize, and the infected are being brought back in a plane with a specially outfitted isolation unit to a facility specifically designed to handle them (a separate building in the hospital complex).

Even a cursory review of the facts shows that there is no actual threat or danger. If Ebola spread here on it's own it still wouldn't be a threat to the wider public. Our healthcare system is robustly able to handle this kind of threat. Literally every single person throwing a fit about this is an idiot.

Apparently the rose-colored goggles do something after all. Have you BEEN in an emergency room in a major city? Outside of the cities we have enough Amish, Christian Scientists and various evangelical cults who wouldn't give up the bodies of the victims until the outbreak spread. You think anyone who subscribes to Sarah Palin's podcast would go to the hospital if they were sick? No. Because they'd be whining about 'Muh freedomz!'. FFS we let measles come back because people wouldn't vaccinate their kids. There's a guy with drug-resistant TB running around California and the authorities can't find him. We'd need martial law to deal with an outbreak and it's all dependent on the CDC not bungling the whole thing.

Now, I have some faith that they won't fark this up, but it's a little dismissive to call anyone with concerns 'an idiot'.